Just wanted to link to this very interesting news out of York University in Toronto, engineers there are working on a functional space elevator! Read the full story here.
The idea of an elevator to space has been close to nuclear fusion as one of those technologies that will always be twenty years away. (more…)
Posted by Mark Crowley on August 5, 2009
http://computationallythinking.com/2009/08/05/this-isnt-your-grandfathers-ol-space-elevator/
The best way to summarize me is to link to the places where you can read my writing.
I am a currently a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University on the search for a great faculty job in Computer Science. My research is generally in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Specifically, I look at the computational challenges to making good decisions about how to act in the face of uncertainty when actions need to be taken at many locations in space at each moment in time.
Currently, I am very excited and involved in a new field of research called Computational Sustainability which attempts to combine advances in AI, Machine Learning and Operations Research and other fields with the ridiculously challenging problems that exist in Ecology, Sustainable Resource Management, Forest and Wildlife Management and Climate Change.
Personally, if we want me to talk your ear off bring up politics or voting systems and democratic reform in general.
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